Enter the Animal [electronic resource] : Cross-Species Perspectives on Grief and Spirituality.

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Intro -- Enter the Animal -- Enter the Animal: Cross-species Perspectives on Grief and Spirituality -- Contents -- Foreword -- Introduction -- Animal subjectivity -- Historical perspectives and cognitive biases -- Double looking-glass -- On sheep and other primates -- From neurons to neighbours7070 Cf. Shonkoff and Phillips 2000. -- Primacy of ancient brain regions -- Brain asymmetry -- Integration -- Attachment theory and grief -- Overview -- Definitions -- Current context -- Spirituality and animals -- Intersubjective attachment and loss -- Bond brokering -- Weaning

Social and ecological self-determination -- Food choices -- Sociality -- The emergence of attachment theory -- Behaviourists and Freud -- Early social deprivation -- Human children reared in isolation -- John Bowlby and attachment theory -- Attachment and psychobiological regulation -- Internal working models and attachment styles -- Attachment and non-mammalian/non-avian species -- The picturesque fabric of loss -- Cross-cultural grief matters -- Ethological observations of nonhuman animal grief and loss -- fMRI and dogs -- Understanding death

Human diversity in grief expression and repression -- Delayed personhood -- Breeding machines? -- Weird and beyond -- Spiritual animal -- Religious imagination vs spiritual engagement -- Spirituality and the self -- Self-relatedness -- From self-transcendence to self-extension -- Place attachment and the roots of spiritual relating -- Grief at a distance: Humans grieving unknown animals -- Bearing witness: from open rescue to open mourning

Sit-ins and lock-downs77 The terms describe activities of bearing witness with activists sitting with the captive animals or locking themselves to the cages and other infrastructure. -- Vigils -- Grievability of unknown animals -- Vicarious trauma -- Vicarious loss -- The assumptive world -- Farmers and meatworkers -- Out of sight, out of mind -- The human toll -- Coda: The precarious way ahead -- Works cited -- Acknowledgements -- Index

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